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Book    of    Mormon 


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ALVA  A.  TANNER 

Author    And  Publisher 
OAKLEY    IDAHO 

PUBLISHED   DECEMBER  1916 
PRICE  15  CENTS 


Copyright,  by  Alva  A.  Tanner   1916 

There  are  20  chapters  in  the"  Book  of  Mormon  taken 
from  the  Bible— Kin.?:  James  translation  verbatim.  15, 
from  Isaiah,  3  from  Matthew,  and  2  from  Malichi.  Take 
the  Book  of  Mormorr  and  turn  to  page  87  and  read  to 
page  106.  You  find  ISVnapters  of  Isaiah  there.  Turn 
to  page  194  and  you  fird  1  chapter  from  Isaiah.  Turn  to 
page  504;  3  chapteres  from  Matthew  beginning  there. 
Turn  to  page  529  and  find  1  chapter  from  Isaiah.  Turn 
to  page  532  and  find  2  chapters  from  Malachi. 

The  faithfutfbeleiver  of  the  Book  of  Mormon  must 
read  all"  the  20  chpatcrs  in"q^estion  and  make  sure  they 
are  there.  He  must  compare  each  and  all  with  the  King 
James  translation.  Let  him!jthen^tryrtoaccoant  for  the 
complete  agreement,  since  the  Bible  has  under- went  many 
changes.  Ifithe  20  chapters  was  translatedffrom  ancient 
plates  as  claimed,  they:  prove" the  King  James  translation 
of  the  Bible  is  infallable^after^having  passed  thru  many 
translations. 


Add  two  more  chapters  form  Isaiah,    to  the  list  al- 
ready given.     See  Book  of  Mormon,  page  75  and  76. 
A  CHALLINGE  TO  THE  WORLD 

"I  am  wiling  to  repeat  my  statement  that  the  Book 
of  Mormon  must  submit  to  «very  test— literary  criticism 
with  the  rest.  Indeed,  it  must  submit  to  every  analysis 
and  examination.  It  must  submit  to  historical  tests,  to 
the  test  of  archaeological  research,  and  also  to  the  high- 
er criticism.  And,  what  is  more,  in  the  midst  of  it  all,  its 
an  locates  must  carry  themseves  in  a  spirit  of ,  pacienee 
and  of  courage;  and  that  they  witt  do  just  as  long,  ef 

coarse,  as  their  faith  remains  true  to  the  book., The 

Book  is  flung  down  into  the  world's  mass  of  literature, 
and  here  'it  is;  we  proclaim  it  true,  and  the  world  has 
the  right  to  test  it  to  the  utmost  in  every  possable 
way".-B.  H.  Roberts. 

The  Book  of  Mormon  had  been  pat  to  just  such  tests 
as  those  above  mentioned,  and  found  wanting,  more  than 
twenty  years  before  Mr.  Roberts,  made  this  chalange. 
Mr.  Roberta,  asuld  not  have  been  ignorent  of  it. 

Rev.  M.  T.  Lamb,  put  the  book  to  the  test;  hear  him: 
"The  Book  of  Mormon  is  modern  in  its  conception  and 
make-up.  A  large  number  of  words  and  expressions  are 
found  in  it  wholly  of  modern  origen,  proving  beyond  the 
possibility  of  a  question  that  it  could  not  have  been 
translated  from  ancient  plates"  M,  T.  Lamb. 

"We  have  found  that  the  entire  ancient  history  of 
this  western  world  is  flatly  against  the  claims  of  the 
Book  of  Mormon".  Idem 

"The  Book  of  Mormon  furnishes  a  list  of  the  names 
of  cities  and  countries  and  of  men  professedly  in  exist- 
ence 1500  and  2000  years  ago,  and  we  have  found  beyond 
the  possibility  of  a  question  that  not  even  one.  of  them  is 
correct— that  no'such  countries,  or.  cities,  or  men  ever 
existed  upon  this  contient"  Idem 

"The  ancient  peoples  of  Centrial  America,  particular- 
ly, did  not  come  from  Jerusalem— did  not  reach  here  600 


years  before  B.  C,— did  not  begin  their  course  upon  the 
western  coasts  of  Soutta  America—did  not  feecome  Chri»- 
taans,  and  did  not  in  the  fourth  century  A,  D.  become  a 
savage,  barbarious  people".  Idem 

'This  book  tells  us  of  the  existence  upon  this  western 
world  of  iron,  steel  and  brass,  of  wheat  and  barley,  of 
oxen,  sheep,  goats  and  horses,  of  silver  ai&d  gold  coins  us- 
ed as  money— every  one  of  whieh  statements  have  been 
found  to  be  wholy  and  entirely  uateue".  Idem 

Sahagun  says  that,  countless  years  ago,  the  first  in- 
habitants of  this  country(Centeral  America)  came  by  sea 
from  the  direction  of  Florida,  on  the  north,  and  landing 
at  Panuco  journeyed  down  the  coast  to  Guatemala,  where 
tkey  estabished  a  city  called  Tamoachan,"  J.  T.  Short, 
p.  244.  This  contridicts  the  Book  of  Mormon  acount. 

Mr.  Bancroft,  in  "Native  Races"  vol.  5,  p.  97,  in  a 
foot-note  says: 

Macgregor  argues  that  the  Americans  could  not -have 
been  Jews,  for  the  latter  people  were  aquainted  with  the 
use  of  iron  as  far  back  as  the  time  of  Tubal  Cain:  they 
also  used  milk  and  wheaten  bread  which  the  Americans 
eould  and  would  have  used  if  they  had  once  known  of 
them" 

The  Mayas  had  18  month's  in  a  year,  and  20  days 
in  a  month.  Had  they  have  been  Jews  they  would  have 
reckened  after  the  Jewish  -moad  of  reckening  time. 

The  Mayas  have  a  tradition  of  a  white  man  once  visit- 
ing this  country  long  ago,  with  white  hair  and  long 
beard.  He  attracted  universl  attention  and  is  alway  spok- 
en of  as  the  white  man.  This  is  proof  that  the  natives 
was  not  white.  This  white  man.  was  an  ancient  mam. 
The  natives  were  always  a  brown  or  copper  color. 

"No  deformation  of  the  head  has  ever  been  practiced 
by  the  Jew«  in  any  part  of  the  world— nor  by  Christians 
of  any  age  or  country. "  Rev.  M.  T.  Lamb 

'  'And  we  know  that  head-f latening  was  almost  uni- 
versal among  them(the  Mayas)."  — Banee.  Vol.  2,  p.  802 


If  the  L,  D.  S.  church  have  authority  to  turn  people 
over  to  the  buf fetins  of  satan  for  disagreeing  with  the 
church,  it  is  well  to,know  if  by  being  decievsd  they  have 
that  authority. 

I  dont^say  the  books  of  Dickens,  Mark  Twain,  or  Ben 
Hur,  are  bad  because  they  are  fiction,  nor  do  I  say  it  of 
the  Book  of  Mormon.  It  is  a  king  of  books  of  fiction. 

If  Lehi,  Nephi,  Alma,  and  other  Book  of  Mormon 
writers  have  not  borrowed  from  Matthew,  Lnke,  Mark, 
St.  John,  Paul,  John  the  Revelator  and  the  other  New 
Testament  writers,  then  the  Bible  authors  have  borrowed 
from  Lehi,  Nephi  and  Alma.  Which  are  the  orignal 
writers? 

"The  entire  civilization  of  the  FiBook  of  Mormon,  its 
whole:Tecord  fromlbegining  to  end  is  flatly  contradicted 
by  the  civilization  and  thejhistory  of  Central  America." 
M,  T.  Lamb's  Goldoen  Bible. 

God  is  the  ;hub  of  all  knowledge  and  the  word  of  God 
is  truth,      A  He  is  the  word  of   the  devil.     His  servants 
ye  are  whom  ye  listjtoohey.  Do  ye  serve  God  or  Satan? 
MANUSCRIPT    LOST 

The  116  pages  of  manuscript  of  the  Book'Vf  Mormon 
intrusted  to  Martin  Harris,  which  was  never  returned, 
was  taken  from  Harris,  by  his  wife,  while  he  slept, 
and  committed  to  the  fiaroes.  The  long  'revelation 
in  the  Doctrine  &  Cavenants,  infoming  Joseph  of  the 
devils  purpose  to  change  the  wordings,  were  needless,  for 
the  manuscrpt  was  burned  long  before  that  revelation 
was  had.  See  Creggs,  Prophet  of  Palmyra,  ppv?3 

About  fifty  five  or  sixty  years  after  Lehi'.left  Jeru- 
selem,  a  learned  man,  Sherem  by  name,  a  strarnger  came 
preaching  among'the  Nephites.  Where ^was  he  from?  He 
could  not  have  been  old  enough  to  have  been  thus  en- 
gaged, and  net  knwn  to  Jacob,  had  he  been  a  Nephite 
or  a  Lamanite.  No  other  people  were  known  to  them  'at 
that  time  en  this  ccntirert.  Shcicm  \vss  a  straw  man. 


On  page  65— 6  of  the  Book  of  ^Mormon,  we  are  told 
positively  that  Joseph  Smith  the  latter-day  prophet  would 
be  of  theliniageof  Joseph  sold  into  Egypt,  and  thru  the 
loins  of  Lehi  and  his  son  Joseph.  To  have  fulfilled  this 
prophecy  Joseph  Smith  should  have  been  born  of  some 
of  the  Native  Races  of  America.  The  fulfillment  of  this 
prophecy  was  not  to  fail. 

The  following,  like  many  other  whole  pages,  in  the 
Book  of  Mormon,  is' a  clear  case  of  borrowing.  Sse 
Mark  I,  4.  Luke  3.  1 6.  Lehi,  of  the  Book  of  Mormon,  or 
any  other,  must  .have  been  a  man  of  straw  to  speak  in 
this  way  600  years  before  Christ. 

'  'And  he  spake  also  concerning  a  prophet  who  should 
come  before  the  Messiah,  to  prepair  the  way  of  the  Lord; 
Yea,  even  he  should  go  forth  and  cry  in  the  widerness, 
Prepare  ye  the  way  of  the  Lord,  make  his  paths  straight; 
for  there  standeth  one  among  you  whom  ye  know  not; 
and  he  is  mightier  than  I,  whos  shoe's  latchet  I  am  not 
worthy  to  unloose"  B,  M,  pp.  19.  v.  7,  8. 

On  page  167  vere  7  B,  M,  we  read,  '  'for  behold  blood 
cometh  from  every  pore" 

That  was  written  after  Harvey  lived  about!619,  A.  D, 
or, 'Harvey  was  not  »„ the  first  to  know  of  the  pores  and 
blood  ciculation. 

"In  the  first  place,  we  want  to  understand  a  little 
about  the  Book  of  Mormon  itself,  as  there  are,  even 
among  the  members  of  the  church,  I  understand,  compar- 
atively few  who  have  made  a  study  of  it."  Elder  George 
M.  Ottinger.  In  Address,  on  B.  M.  April  2,  1916— Mormon 

"If  the  Book  of  Mormon  were  simpaly  a  romance,  if 
we  are  deluded  in  the  faith  we  have  in  its  divine  authen- 
ticity, then  the  very  foundations  upon  which  the  chuch 
is  built  would  be  shaken,  because  we  may  have  been  de- 
ceived in  all  other  things".  Elder  Anthony  W.  Ivins. 
In  Address  on  B.  M.  July  9,  1916— Mormon. 

The  Doctrine  &  Covenants,  is  the  real  foundation  of 
the  L,  D.  S.  church.  They  could  spare  the  rest.  A.  A.  T. 


<<     ffc        3L*    CHARACTERS  COPIED  FROM 

THE  GOLDEN  PLATES  BY 
3  *  v  JOSEPH  SMITH 

After  all  that  has  been  said  ab- 


out  the  characters  copied  fom 
the  goden  plates  which  Martin 
Harris  took  to  Prof.  Anthon,  I 
have  never,  yet  see  a  fac-simifet 
of -them  published  in  the  [church 
books.  They  must  hav  some  reas- 
on for  not  giving  them  out.  One 
MV  ^i  church  member  said:  "They  arc 

UJ  O  of  all  thiugs  the  mast  damaging 

If  the  Book  of  Mormon  is  true, 
the  chracters  Joseph  Smith  copied 
from  the  plates,  should  be  found 
to  agree  with  the  hieroglyphics 
found  in  the  ruins  of  the  ancient 

ca.     The     hieroglyphics    shown 

Those  which  follow  are  found 
in  the  ruiens  of  the  most  ancient 
cites  of  Amercic.a  The  Mayas 
still  speak  the  language  their 
ancestors  spake  six  thousand 
years  ago,  or,  even  farther  back 
Abrahams  time. 


Professor  Anthon  describes  the  chracters  copied  by 
Joseph  Smith,  as  follows:  "A  very  brief  examination 
convinced  me  that  it  was  a  mere  heax  and  a  very  clumsey 
one  too.  The  characters  were  arranged  in  columns,  like 
the  Chinese  mode  of  writing  and  presented  the  most 
signgular  medley  that  I  ever  beheld.  Greek,  Hebrew  and 
all  sorts  of  letters  more  or  less  distorted,  either  through 


unskilfukiess  or  frpcn  actual  design,  were  intermingled 
with  sundry  delineations  of  half  moons,  stars  and  othew 
matuyal  objects,  and  the  whole  ended  in  a  rude  represen- 
tation* of  the  Mexican  Zodiac. " 

According  to  the  Book  of  Mormoja,  the  Refomed  Eg^ 
yptian  language  was  in  use  upon  this  contnant  by  the  an- 
cient inhabitance,  and  the-beleivrs  in  the  book  think  the 
ancient  cities  was  built  by  the  Nephites.  Had  that  have 
been  true  the  hieroglyphics  found  in  the  ruined  cities 
would  hove  been  Mke  those  of  Joseph  Smith's. 


HIEROGLYPHICS. ON  THE  COPAN  STATUS. 

The  hieroglyphics  upon  this  cut  are  taken  frm  the 
Copan  Statue  seen  upon  another  page.  They  are  very 
ancient.  The  are  found  in  the  ruins  of  two  of  the  mots 
ancient  dties  oflCentrial  America,  namly:  Copan  and  Pal- 
enque.  They  are  a  dead  letter,  nobody  can  read  them. 
However  they  bear  witness  a#a4nst  the  characters  copied 
by  Joseph  Smith  from  the  golden  plates. 


Hundrids  of  passages  in  the  Book  of  Mormon  credit- 
ed to  Lehi,  Nephi,  Alma  and  others  who  lived  before 
Christ,  acording  to  the  Book  of  Mormon  print,  is  New 
Testiment  scripture  rehashed.  The  following  from  John 
the  Revelator  is  a  samples: 

"And  assuredly  as  the  Lord  livith  for  the  Lord  hatk 
spoken  it,  and  it  is  His  eternal  word,  which  cannot  pass 
away,  that  they  who  are  righteous  shall  ba  righeteoas 
still,  and  they  who  are  filthy  shall  be  filhty  still;  where- 
for,  they  who  are  fithy,  are  the  devil  and  his  angels:  aad 
they  shall  go  away  into  everlasting  fire  prepared  for^ 
them;  and  their  torment  is  a  lake  of  fire  and  brim- 
stone, whos  flame  assnedeth  up  forever,  and  has  no 
end."  B.  M.  page  80. 

Nephi  is  made  to  speak  the  above  600  years  before 
John  the  Re  Delators  time,  yet  it  is  only  John  the  Re  vela- 
tors  words  worked  over.  See  Book  of  Mormon,  page  80. 

Nephi  borrows  Pauls  words  600  years  before  Pauls 
time.  B.  M.  page  113 

"Behold,  the  Lord  hath  forbidden  this  thing;  wher- 
f ore  the  Lord  God  has  given  a  commandment  that  all  men 
shall  have  charity,  which  charity  is  love.  And  except 
they  shall  have  charity  they  were  nothing." 

Alma  borrows  Christs  words  hundreds  of  years  be- 
fore Chirst.  B.  M.  pp.  418  v  23. 

"Now   I  would  that  ye  should  remember  that  Goi 
hath  said  that  the  in  ward  vessel  shall  be   cleansed   first, 
and  then  shall  the  outward  vessel  be  cleansed  also," 

In  the  Book  of  Mormon,  page  59,  vers  14  Lehi  has 
borrowed  from  Shakespeare,  or  else  Shakespeare  has 
borrowed  from  Lehi, 

"Awake!  and  arise  from  the  dust,  and  hear  the  words 
©f  trembling  parent,  whos  limbs  ye  must  soon  lay  dowm 
in  the  cold  and  silent  grave,  from  whence  no  traveller 
can  return;  a  few  more  days,  and  I  go  the  way  of  til  the 
earth."  B.  M.  prage  59.  v.  14. 

Professor  Anthon  declared  the    characters  a  hoax 


which  Marten  Harris  took  to  him.  No  hieroglyphic  on 
earth  can  be  found  like  them; 

The  Hebrew  language  was  in  uee  by  the  Jews  at  the 
tifcne  Lehi  left  Jeruselem— not  a  refomed  Egyption  langu- 
age. 

It  is  all  a  myth,  about  Nephi  getting  a  genealogy  ef 
feis  $*ople,  and  the  law  of  the  Jews  to  the  time  he  left 
Jsmselem  on  plates  of  brass  from  Laban.  Only  twenty 
two  years  before,  a  lost  copy,  and  the  only  copy  of  the  law 
was  found  by  Hilkiah  a  High  Priest.  2d  Kings,  22  &  23. 
chapters,  -  \  ;, ; 

Lehi  lived  in  Jeruselem  most  all  his  days  cotempary 
witk  Jerimiah,  and  his  knowledge  of  the  coming  of  Christ 
wae  more  than  all  the  Old  Testiments  prophets  put  toge- 
ther, yet  no  mention  is  to  be  found  of  him  in  the  Bible. 

Lehi  could  call  Christ  by  name,  give  his  mothers 
came,  tell  of  his  baptizm,  tell  of  his  preaching,  his 
erueif  iction  and  resurrection,  give  the  exact  date,  tell  of 
John  the  Baptist,  and  of  John  the  Revelator.  Lehi  could 
tell  the  future  as  well  as  if  he  had  lived  after,  and  it  is 
ne  woader  for  Lehi  is  only  a  man  of  straw. 

All  the  predictions  of  the  Bible,  the  bad  as  sure  as 
tfce  good  must  be  fulfiled.  If  Joseph  Smith  fulfilled 
the  good,  he  fulfilled  some  of  the  bad.  He  deceived  the 
v«ry  elcefe.  Turned  the  minds  of  people  to  fable  lor 
jpospel.  (Book  of  Mormon  and  Book  of  Abraham)  Taught 
fable  which  is  received  for  the  truth.  He  laid  a  found 
ati«n  for  a  line  of  bogus  prophets. 

Some  people  dont  object  to  being  deceived  -many  are 
STvallible.  Christ  is  the  highest  type  of  righteousness— The 
Bible  Ckrist.  I  read  the  Book  of  Mormon  with  a  great 

of  satisfaction.  I  read  it  often  and  I  would  not  like 
be  without  a  copy.  I  have  learned  however,  that  the 
©f  Lehi,  Nephi,  Alma,  Mormon,  Moroni,  Jared 
and  ethers  are  straw  names.  I  read  it  as  a  book  of  Holy 
Fiction.  I  see  the  thick  and  thin  places.  I  regard  it  as 
a  marveletrs  book  of  fiction. 


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THE  MAYA  ALPHABET 

Aecording,  to  ancient  Mayan  history  Centrial  America 
And  Mexico,  has  been  teaming  with  a  thick  population 
for 'no ore  than  4,  COO  years,  and  the  Mayas  have  spokesn 
th«  same  languae  all  that  time  with  little  if  any  changes. 
Soifce  .historins  fix  the;  .date  of  the  Mayas  tongue  6,  000 
years  back,  and  beMy-eat  Js  one  of  the  oldest  lanuages 


on  garth.     J.  T.  Short,  Baldwin,  and  Brasseur-de-  Bomy 
fecurg-  are  the  historians  on  this  subject. 

There  are  three  counts  and    three  only,   that   feora 
against  the  Book  of  Mormon.   Namly:  The  internal  evi4-. 
ence,  the  evidence  of  the  American  hieroglyphics  and  the 
Book  of  Abraham  exposeure.    These    prove  the  Book  ef 
Mormon  to  be  only  a  Holy  Novel— a  Remarkable  Navel. 

4 'Whole  chapters  are  given  bodily  and  verbatim  fram 
the  writings  of  the  prophets,  in  the  commonly  used  King 
Jomes  version  of  the  Scriptures,  but  professedly  written 
by  these  Jewish- Americans  prophets,  aad  translated  from 
the  "Reformed  Egyptian,"  by  Jeseph  Smith,  Strangle* 
Indeed,  that  the  Urim  and  Thurnmim  translation  should 
so  dosely  follow  the  renderings,  of  the  ef  King  Jame's 
day,"  Thomas  Gregg. 

"The  Book  of  Mormon  dont  treat  upon  the  subject  of 
"Laying  on  of  Hand"  of  the  "Second  Coming  of  Christ," 
the  "Milleneial  Reign. "  the  subject  of  "Marriage"  except 
the  prohibition  of  Plygamy,  "Tithing" -the  "Sabbath" 
and  "Baptisem  for  the  Dead." 

All  that  talk  about  the  abominal  practice  of  polygamy 
by  Jacob,  was  before  grown  up  women  were  pletntiull. 
ORSON  PRATT'S  OPINION 

"This  book  must  be  either  true  or  false.  It  true,  it  is 
•ne  of  the  most  important  messages  ever  sent  from  God 
tie  man,  affecting  both  the  temporal  and  eternal  intrests 
of  every  people  under  heaven  to  the  same  extent  arid  in 
the  same  degree  that  the  message  of  Noah  affected  the 
inhabitants  of  the  old  world.  If  fales,  it1  is  one  of  the 
most  cunning,  wicked,  bold,  deep-laid  impostures  ever 
palmed  upon  the*  world,  calculated  to  deceive  and  ruin 
millons  who  would  sincerely  receive  it  as  the  wo^d  of 
God."-OrsonEPratt. 

It  is  not  the  'purpose  "of  the  author  of  this : pamphlet  - 
to  knock  any  :creed  or  faith,  without  pointing  out  some- 
thing better/  The  teaching  of  Christ   in  the  New 
ment,  is  superior  to  all  teachings  of  this  day. 


On  page  324,  verse  44,  of  the  Book  of  Mormon  we  are 
told  by  Alma,  long  before  Christ's  time,  of  the  earths 
motion  and  the  movements  of  the  planets.  That  could  not 
have  been  written  till  after  Galileo  lived. 

Turn  to  page  463,  verse  15,  and  we  are  told  there,  be- 
for  the  time  of  Christ  that  it  is  the  earth  that  moves  and 
not  the  sun.  That  could  not  have",been  written  until  af- 
ter Galileo  lived. 

In  all  the  ruined  cities  found  in  central  America,  no 
heroglyphic  have  ever  been  found  like  the  characters'Jos- 
eph  Smith  copied  from  the  golden  plates,  and  which  Mar- 
tin Harris  took  to  Prof  Anthon. 

The  Indians  have  been  6000  years  upon  the  American 
continent  and  were  never  any  other  color  than  they  are 
to  day.  See  Lambs  Golden  Bible,  p  292.  293.  294.  295. 

There  never  was  a  Christian  civilzation  upon  the  Am- 
erican continent  until  after  the  time  of  Columbus. 

The  Book  of  Mormon  prophecies  .were  all  written  af- 
ter the  events  took  place. 

There  is  no  new  doctrine  taught  in  the  Book  of  Mor- 
mon pertaining  to  salvation,  better  than  the  Bible  teach- 
ings. The  Bible  is  not  a  myth— It  is  original.  The  Bible 
Christ  is  not  a  myth. 

The  skin  of  the  Lamanites  who  were  converted,  and 
united  with  the  Nephites,  became  white  like  unto  the 
Nephites.  If  Morrnonismis  true,  the  skin  of  the  Indians 
Howaiian  Islanders,  and  Africans  of  this  day  would  turn 
white  who  accept  Mormonism.  See  B.  M.  pp.  480. 

If  Joseph  Smith  had  not  have  claimed  the  Book  of 
Mormon,  and  Book  of  Abraham,  were  translations  from 
ancient  hieroglyphics,  and  not  have  shown  the  fac-simile 
to  the  world,  he  would  have  given  the  world  no  chance 
to  tare  him  down. 

It  was  a  lasy  wind  that  took  344  days  to  blew  the 
Jaredites  across  the  sea.  A  lost  fishing  crew,  blow  acrss 
the  sea  in  less  than  a  month  these  days.  We  live  in  an 
age  when  the  Lord  is  not  so  slow— He  cuts  his  work  short. 


"All  the  records  that  have  come  down  to  us  make  it 

certain  that horrid  idols  instead  of  the  Lord  Jesus 

were  worshiped 'throughout  Central  Amerca  2000  years 
ago'M.  ;T.  Lamb's  Golden  Bible,  page  287. 

"The  records  tell  us  (Book  of  Mormon)  that  a  people 
called  the  Jaredites  were  the  sole '.'  ocupants  of  Central 
America  and  Mexico  from  a  very  early  period  down  to 
about  six  hundred  years  before  Christ— while  genuine  re- 
cords ( J.  T  Short,  and  Bancroft)  give  us  the  names  of 
the  Quinames,  the  Mayas,  the  Miztecs,  the  Zapotecs,  the 
Totonacs,  the  Huastecs,  the  Olmecs,  and  the  Xicalancas, 
as*'th«!peopie  who  occupied  that  section  of  country  in  the 
most  ancient'times.''  —  M.  T.  Lamb's  Golden  Bible  page 
289. 

Orson  Pratt  and ',  B.  .  H.  Roberts,  '•' have  invited  the 
world  to  disprove  the  claims  for  the  Book  of  Mormon. 
The  saints  should  not  get  mad,  nor 'dount  them  their  ene- 
mies who  show  them. ;  Preachers  of  Christ  have'done  it. 

Rev.!  M.  T.  Lamb's  "Golden  Bible".' was  published  in 
1886,  and  it  seems  thatnone'of  the  defenders  of  the  Book 
of  Mormon  dare  attempt  .'to  refute  it.  They  would  have 
to  squairly  contradict  the  writings  of  ten  or  more  histor- 
ians if  they  did. 

The'  name?  of  Jten  historians  who  have  written  his- 
tories of  "the  American  Indians  and  which  contadict  the 
claims  of  the  "-Book  of  Mormon  are  as  follws:  Baldwin, 
Squier.  Bishop  Landa,  J..;T.  Stout,  Catherwood,  Steven?, 
Dr  August  Lei ;Plongeon  Bane,  Brasseur-de-Bourbourg, 
and  Bancroft.  There  are  still  others.  . 

Out  of  the  names  of  "48  Ancient  Cities  and  Countries 
in  North  America  not  none  is':  found  to  agree  with  any 
name  ie  thn  Book  ;of  Mormon. ';fSeej  Lamb's,  Golden  page 
277,  278, 

Out  of  35  names"  of  men  who  actual y  lived;-;  upon  this 
continent  in  ancient  times  according  to  the* records, of  an- 
tiquity, not  one  ^agrees  with  any'^name  [in  the  Book  of 
Mormon.  See'  Lamb's  Golden  Bible  page  281. 


Other  people,  not  Nephites  or 
Larnanites,  inhabited  Central 
Amerca,  for  more  than  3,  000 
years,  or  form  before  Lehi  left 
Jerusalem. 

'  'The  natives  of  Yucatan  speak, 
to-day,  the  same  language  spok- 
en by  their  ancestors  three  and 
four  thousand  years  ago/'  Rev. 
M.  T.  Lamb. 


SHE  COPAN  STATUE  Alva  A.  Tanner 

All  archaeological  researches  in  the  ruinedjcities  of 
Cemtral  America,  to  find  some  real  evidence  to  oorober- 
ate  the  trutf ullness  of  the  Book  of  Mormon  have  failed 
Tke  evidence  is  the  other  way,  J;,The  L.;D.  S.  Saints  are 
te  walk  by  faith,  not  by  facts. 

;       In  tliis  small  pamphlet  I  have  tried  to  tell  mueh  in  lit- 
tle space:  to  pat  the  cream  of  a  volume  into  a  nut-shelf. 


TEMPLE   BUILDING 

Nephf,  who  was  growrTbefore  he  left  Jerusalem,  ttved 
long-enough  to  reach  the  promist  land— America,  witk  a 
few  others,  14  or  16,  see  them  multiply  and  devido  into 
two  kingdom,  have  wars,  and  blud-shed,  and  yet  have 
enough  people  to  build  a  tempi  9  after  the  pa  tarn  of  Sal- 
mons temple— only  a  very  little  inferior.  And  only  thirty 
years  has  elapest  sineo  they  left  Jerusalem.  A  few  pee- 
pie,  perhaps  100,  encluding  wives  and  children,  do  this  mar 
velotw  big  job.  Ife  required  153,  000  laborers  and  SO,  000 
•verseers  seven  years  to  build  Solomons  temple.  la  fifty 
er  sixty  years  after  Lehi  and  his  Htble  ora^r  of  14  or  16 
leave  Jerusalem  they  have  muliplied  until  they  have  arm- 
ies carrieng  en  wars.  See  Book  of  Mormon,  page  71  72 

THE  WITNEISSES  THAT  SAW  THE  PLATES 

"We  do  not  doubt  that  Mr  "Smith  had  plates;  real 
plates,  too,  that  they  were  covered  with  strange  charact- 
ers We  are  uh willing  to  call  in  question  the  testimony 
of  the  eye  witness  upon  this  point.  They  saw  said  plates, 
"hefted  them"  &e.  But  that  is  as  far  as  they  knew,  and 
as  far  as  we  can  accept  their  testimony."  M.  T.  Lamb 

Is  itlnot  strange  that  eight  Barges  driven  aoF«gs  tfee 
©eean  by  wind  shauld  land  together  after  a  344  days  t*ip? 

Is  it  not  strnge  that  ten  moths  aftei?  the  wife  of 
Martin  Harris  had  burned  the  116  page*  of  the  Book  of 
Mormon  manuscrpt  neither  the  Moroni  nor  Joseph  knew 
it  was  burned  up,  See  Doc  Cov.  Chapter  10.  page  97. 

Is  it  not  stpange  that  the  Church  of  Jestts  Christ  was 
established  upen  this  continent  several  hundred  years  be- 
fore the  coming  of  Christ  at  Jerusalem. 

Those  who  accepted  Mormonism  in  the  days  of  Jos- 
eph Snftith,  did'.not  have  the  advantage  we  have  in  this 
day,  of  knov/ing  the  ancient  ruined  cities  on  this  cont- 
inent testify  against  the  Book  of  Mormon,  and  in  those 
days  the  Egyption  hieroglyphic's  could  not  be  read 
which  Ms  later  exptoaded  the  Book  of  Abraham. 


The  story  of  Nephi  killing  Laban,  with  Labans  own 
swoard,  pnttin  on  Labans  robes,  speaking  to  Zerarn  with 
Labaris  voice,  obtaining  the  brass  plates  and  fleeing  with 
Zoram  to  his  brthers  outside  the  city  walls,  and  then  into 
the  wilderness  with  his  brothers  and  Zoraaa,  Labans 
sword, ;  and  the  brass  plates,  reads  like  Robinson  Crusoe. 

After  commenting  on  the  Jaredites,  and^the  Lekiites 
crossing  the  sea,  the  barges,  the  miraculous  compass,  and 
the  great  battle,  with  Shiz  and  Coriantiumr,  as  command- 
ers, and  which  he  estimates  fiften  or  tweny  millions  of 
people  fell  in  batle,  Thomas  Gregg  speaks  as  follows: 

"But  with  all  its  foolishoess  and  glairing  abserditee, 
it  will  not  do  to  say  there  is  no  good  in  this  Book  of  Mor- 
mon. There  is  in  it  a  great  deal  of  good  doctrine,  and 
precept,  and  instruction,  and  many  sublime  thoughts. 
But  all,  or  nearly  so,  of  these,  are  direct  and  palpable 
plagiarisms  from  the  Scriptures  and  other  works". 
Thomas  Gregg's,  Prophet  of  Palmyra,  pp  93 

I  do  not  contend  that  the  Book  of  Mormon  is  bad,  it 
is  a  good  book  of  fiction.  Inspiration  is  necessary,  and 
even  indispensible,  to  writers  of  fiction. 

It  was  not  the  Nephites  and  Lamanites  that  inhabit- 
ed Central  America  2000,  or  1500  years  ago.  There  was 
no  Christian  Gospel  on  this  Continent  then.  It  was  team- 
ing with^another  people,  ancesters  to  the  people  found 
there  when  the  Spaniards  came.  The  proof  of  this  is 
sureT^Fath  in  the^Book  of  Mormon,  as  a  true  history  of  a 
people  that  lived  upon  this  Continent  of  old,  contridicts 
positive'jfacts.  It  is  a"!bogusjfaith. 

Alljthe.  ruined  cities  in^Central  America,  and  all  gen- 
uine history  of  the  Native  Races  contridict  the  story  of  the 
Book  of  Mormon.  Its  innternal  evidence  also,  prove  it 
was  written  "after  the  events  have  happened  which  it 
narratates.  For  further;  proof  read  Rev.  M,  T,  Lamb's 
Goledn  Bible, 


